History Main / MadLove

Either gender can be a Mad Lover, for a beloved of either gender. It's just more common to have females in the role because a clueless woman clinging to an exasperated man is much funnier than a clueless man clinging to an exasperated woman. Some writers adore this trope and like to keep the tension going by throwing in the occasional [[AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther moment where Bob reveals some love for Alice]], just to leave the viewers wondering what's ''really'' going on.

This is not just AllLoveIsUnrequited or ObliviousToLove. Bob is well aware of this one-sided crush, but his protests fall on deaf ears. He can tell Alice he isn't interested, sometimes ''violently'', but she invariably [[SelectiveObliviousness fails to catch on]]. Her behavior often straddles the line between ClingyJealousGirl, StalkerWithACrush or even PsychoSupporter, but she generally means no harm to Bob and also respects his ideals. If she does start becoming an actual threat to Bob or other people close to him though, then [[{{Yandere}} beware]]...

* Exploited in "The Acid Test," in Issue #11 of ''The Haunt of Fear'', when a woman threw acid in her slavishly devoted husband's face to discourage his attentions and he argued in court that it was done in the heat of the moment and he still loved her, only to reveal that it was all part of his plot for revenge and gloat about how, once he gave her the same treatment, she'd ''never leave him again''...
* [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Harley Quinn and Joker]]. The one-shot comic ''[[TropeNamers Mad Love]]'', which was later adapted into an episode of the same name, that tells how Dr. Harleen Quinzel, then a psychiatrist at Arkham Asylum, first met ComicBook/TheJoker. The Joker saw her immediately as a tool to be used and manipulated her into becoming a henchman. However, at the climax, Joker ''[[MoralEventHorizon tosses Harley out a 3rd story window]]'' [[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou for getting the upper-hand on Batman]] ''without'' him, and she blames herself she "didn't get the joke".[[note]]Not that The Joker didn't decide her idea was good ''after'' she'd been taken out of the picture. What really angered him was that he didn't want to hear from other villains that ''she'' did what ''he'' couldn't -- something Bats points out, of course.[[/note]] Cut to Arkham at the end of the episode with a heavily-bandaged Quinn vowing in her normal voice that her life of crime was over since she now saw the Joker for what he was: "a murderous, manipulative, irredeemable --" At which point she spots a rose sitting in her cell with a note of apology from Mr. J, causing her to smile and dreamily say "Angel!" in Harley's voice. Definitely chilling, and worth a watch. Even more so in the comic, Dr. Leeland asks Harley what it felt like to be treated so poorly after all she's done. Harley notices the rose and says "Like a kiss" which is all the more disturbing. (In fact, it's a ShoutOut to the 1962 The Crystals song, "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He_Hit_Me_%28It_Felt_Like_a_Kiss%29 He Hit Me (It Felt Like a Kiss)]]".) According to [[WordOfGod Bruce Timm]], The Joker ''really does'' need her, saying, "Everyone's seen The Joker laugh. Harley is the only one who's seen him ''cry''."

** In ''ComicBook/DeathOfTheFamily'', [[spoiler: Harley Quinn has gone back to the Joker's side, and she even set herself up as a convincing decoy for Batman to go after at the Ace Chemical Plant. Played with, turns out she's not there solely out of loyalty to the Joker (and even states that he's not her Mr. J anymore, and outright attacks him); she's there because Joker threatened to desecrate Deadshot's corpse. Also, the Joker's mad that she got together with Deadshot, and it's one of two reasons he's going after her at all.]]
** Played with when it comes to the Joker's ''other'' partner, Punchline [[WordOfGod (created as "the anti-Harley Quinn.")]] Her bond with the Joker is less emotional than Harley's and more intellectual: she knows he's a sociopath, knows he won't change, and yet she thinks [[StrawNihilist his philosophy]] is the bee's knees. As a result, Joker offers her more respect than he offered Harley, praising her when she comes up with a particularly brilliant plan and never yelling at or hitting her. However, Punchline still has a jealous streak when it comes to Harley, and [[ShipTease cover artists seem to enjoy having her cuddled up against the Joker.]]

* ''Series/TheILand'': [[spoiler: Donovan]] is revealed to have a severe obsessive disorder (possibly erotomania), making him fixate on a nearby woman as the "love of his life", even when he's only just met them, up to his proposing ''marriage''. Naturally, he soon picks [[TheFlorenceNightingaleEffect Blair]]. [[spoiler: In the past, it's shown he killed a married co-worker who rejected his advances. For trying to stop him with Blair, he kills Mason as well.]]

* ''Franchise/{{Noob}}'' seems to have a downplayed version of this between [[spoiler:Nazetrîme and Master Zen]]. The target's feeling towards the situation differs between the two media in which the crush in mentioned. The webseries has his reaction to it shown while he's giving an "I'm superior to you guys" speech to the protagonists, so he shows a "nice, uh?" reaction to the woman mentioning her crush on him during her own introduction. However, the comic version has the crush mentioned when the two are alone with their own guildmates, and his reaction is closer to "Got it, you like me, now stop walking so close to me."

* Panini is madly in love with WesternAnimation/{{Chowder}} and her every effort has been to make him hers. Chowder wants ''nothing'' to do with Panini, to the point that his {{Catchphrase}} is to tell her, "I'm not your boyfriend!"

* In film ''Film/Road House1948'', Jefty is completely delusional about his relationship with Lily. He thinks he can marry her, basically, without any consent or even plain interest on her part.

* In film ''Film/{{Road House1948}}'', Jefty is completely delusional about his relationship with Lily. He thinks he can marry her, basically, without any consent or even plain interest on her part.

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* ''Anime/{{Naruto}}'': Karin loves Sasuke. Sasuke almost kills Karin and gets her captured by her enemy. Karin breaks out of jail to be greeted by Sasuke's "I'm sorry" only to fall in love with him all over again.
* ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic'': Gauron "loves" the beautiful Kashim he [[LoveAtFirstSight first laid eyes on]] all those years ago, the same boy who hates him and loves to beat the shit out of him. Though knowing [[PsychoForHire Gauron]], he probably [[InLoveWithYourCarnage loves]] it ''more'' that Kashim hates him and [[InterplayOfSexAndViolence beats the shit out of him]]. Whenever Sousuke displays docile tendencies and sort of "gives in" (like in ''TSR'', where he gently told Gauron "please"), Gauron gets pissed off and acts like it would've turned him on a lot more if Sousuke were acting violent and defiant.
* Comedic example found in ''Manga/GirlsBravo''. Yukinari, Kirie, and Koyomi are wanted by the perverted Lisa, Kosame, and Fukuyama. All the punches and various other acts of rejection they dish out? The Fukuyama siblings, plus Kosame, [[TooKinkyToTorture like it very much]].

* ''Manga/OutlawStar'': Melfina is terrified of Harry for his unhealthy obsession with her and wants nothing to do with him. Rather than drive him away, her rejection of him simply makes him ''even more determined'' to win her love. [[spoiler:Which he somehow manages to do, shortly before he dies; why Melfina changes her mind all of a sudden when he makes it explicit that the only reason he's being even remotely respectful is that he's on his way out and doesn't have the energy to be his normal, creepy self is a mystery for the ages.]]
* ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' has multiple.
** Tatewaki Kuno is after both Akane and [[GenderBender Girl-form]] Ranma. Neither rain, nor snow, nor [[MegatonPunch repeated knocks into the stratosphere]] [[AmusingInjuries or blows to the head]] will deter him.
** His sister Kodachi also partially qualifies for her pursuit of boy-type Ranma, but before the end of the manga admits that she knows he doesn't love her. Note that this doesn't actually ''stop'' her.
** And of course, one must mention Mousse, who pursues Shampoo past all common sense...
** And Shampoo, in her pursuit of Ranma.
** Ryoga almost qualifies in his pursuit of Akane, he's just smart enough to hide it and take the stalker route instead.
* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': Nemu Kurotsuchi puts up with the abuse and humiliation of the sadistic Mayuri Kurotsuchi, her father, because of her love and admiration for him. It should, however, be noted that she isn't his actual daughter since she is his OppositeSexClone that he specifically designed to be obedient and submissive.

* Yubel in ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'' is not above murder, manipulation, kidnapping, torture, and even brainwashing and assaulting her own love interest Judai so they could be together. In an unusual twist, Yubel also makes herself out to be the LoveMartyr, encouraging Judai to do the same despicable things to her, under the [[LoveMakesYouCrazy crazed belief]] that since "true love" is sharing emotions and experiences - both good and bad - love can only be expressed through shared suffering. [[SubvertedTrope At the end of the third season, however]], he manages to show her otherwise via a complicated FusionDance, and LoveRedeems takes place.
* ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'' Itsuki and his boss, Sensui. [[spoiler: It ''may'' be reciprocal on Sensui's part, but he's too crazy and obsessed with TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt to care.]] The only one of the seven Sensui selves Itsuki seemed to think he had any romantic mileage with was the girl.
* ''Manga/VampirePrincessMiyu'' has [[spoiler:Ranka the UncannyValleyGirl and Shinma puppeteer, and Kei Yuzuki the ChickMagnet. He ''knows'' she's not from this world and that does ''not'' stop him from falling for her. And yes, she loves him back and takes him to the Darkness with her... at Kei's own request]].
* Haru towards Tsuna in ''Manga/Reborn2004''. Interestingly, she started off ''hating'' Tsuna because she thought he was mistreating [[DevilInPlainSight Reborn]] but quickly changed her mind after he saved her from drowning. With a little help from a Dying Will Bullet, of course, but that was enough to rewrite him as "awesome" in her book.
** Chrome for Mukuro. Of course Mukuro does seem to love her back in his own twisted way.

* ''Manga/RurouniKenshin'':
** A tragic take on his is the relationship between Shishio Makoto and Komagata Yumi. She was his retainer and caretaker, always frustrated because she wasn't an ActionGirl and knew battles were the more important thing that her MagnificentBastard boyfriend cared for, so she didn't mind even [[spoiler: being ''run through by him with his sword'' so he could win.]] And Shishio actually cared for Yumi [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes as much as someone like him could]], defending her when a shocked and horrified Kenshin questioned what had just happened [[spoiler: and [[DiedInYourArmsTonight cradling Yumi's fatally injured body in his arms]] [[LetThemDieHappy so she could die in peace]]... before ''he'' died his KarmicDeath]].
** Then they go off to take over Hell together afterward! It's sweet! (No, really, this actually happens. They even wait for Hoji, his administrative assistant with a man-crush, to commit suicide and catch up with them, too.)
** Kamatari had it even worse, though I don't think either case with Shishio really applies – he was quite happy to have them around, he's just AllTakeAndNoGive. This is because he's a {{cr|eepyCrossdresser}}ossdresser and, though hardly gender-queer at all (he laughs and flashes Misao when she mistakes him for a woman), and is perfectly aware that he's not the strongest or the most beautiful retainer, and can't compete for Shishio's attention on either field. Even if Shishio liked guys, he'd have probably gone for Soujiro. Ow, BrainBleach, please.
* Ladd Russo and his fiance Lua in ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'' share quite the odd romantic relationship, what with Ladd being a delightfully AxCrazy PsychoForHire and Lua being an oddly [[DissonantSerenity serene]] masochist. To them, "I'll kill you last", means "I love you", specifically, "I'm saving you for last because I'll enjoy killing you the most."
* Yuno Gasai of ''Manga/FutureDiary''. She'll do anything to be with her Yuki-kun. "Anything" including suicide, homicide (with an axe), stalking, etc. At first, she freaks the crap out of Yuki, but he lets her stay around so she can protect him from some other crazy people who are after his life as part of a ThereCanOnlyBeOne game. Later, he ''does'' come to develop feelings for her and when he told her he reciprocated her love, she responded by tying him to a chair and keeping him drugged for an entire week, to ensure that he'd stay "safe". It is worth noting that, despite being as reasonably sane as is humanly possible while also being capable of massacring orphans (ItMakesSenseInContext), ''he's still with her'' after escaping from the chair.
* In ''Manga/BlackCat'', [[StalkerWithACrush Creed]] is crazy about Train. Train constantly tries to beat him off of him and attempts numerous times to kill him. And Creed just can't seem to take a hint. Train must be resisting because someone "evil" is influencing him... [[MurderTheHypotenuse and that person must be killed]].
* ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'': Mummymon is head over heels in love with fellow villain [[MinionShipping Arukenimon]], even though she ''clearly'' isn't interested. Neither of them is particularly crazy, and she's willing to tolerate him unless he gets too touchy-feely.
* [[spoiler:Sasame]] from ''Manga/{{Pretear}}'' wavers between this and LoveMartyr. On one hand, he's genuinely selfless and wants to help the girl he loves. On the other hand, the girl he loves is a DarkMagicalGirl that doesn't care about him, and he's willing to ''destroy the world'' to stay by her side.

* ''Manga/BlackButler'':
** Hannah for Alois. No matter how much he hurts her, she wouldn't think of leaving him, since she absorbed Luka's love for him.
** Also Grelle for Sebastian. Leaving the fact that she's a UsefulNotes/{{Transgender}} woman (coming from WordOfGod, [[http://i888.photobucket.com/albums/ac90/smoking_kills/gint1.jpg and here's]] [[http://i888.photobucket.com/albums/ac90/smoking_kills/gint2.jpg the proof]]), she has a tendency to do anything to get Sebastian's attention. This makes her useful for the other main characters, especially Ciel, who promises her alone time with Sebastian in return for help. Sebastian does not seem too fond of this idea when he finds out, and as far as the anime shows, he manages to avoid her. Oh, and did we mention she's a death god and Sebastian's a Demon? Yeah, this a very strange relationship indeed.
** Grelle has it for William too.
%%* ''Manga/SaintSeiya'': Pandora with Hades.

* ''Every single relationship'' in ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}'' is like this, mostly due to the [[DysfunctionJunction incredibly dysfunctional cast]]. The healthiest one is probably the relationship between a back-alley surgeon and a female Dullahan (that is, a woman with no head), where the former outright says that he dissembled about the location of the latter's head because he never wanted her to leave him. And that's the point where their relationship ''improves.''
%%* Ox towards Kim in ''Manga/SoulEater''.
%%* Prince Dimande and Ali towards Usagi in ''Anime/SailorMoon'' and Esmeraude towards Prince Dimande.
* Shuichi from ''Manga/{{Gravitation}}'' towards Yuki. He chases Yuki constantly, despite being rejected, verbally abused, and often being called a little brat. They eventually end up together.
* ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'': Ayame "Sa-chan" Sarutobi actually enjoys being abused/rejected by the object of her affection Gintoki.
* Quite a few relationships in ''Manga/PandoraHearts'' are like this, like Jack for Lacie, Oz for Alice, Vincent for Gil, possibly even [[HoYay Gil for Oz]]... Echo for Vincent looks like it's going to be a major one after the release of chapter 89.
* In ''Manga/InuYasha'', Inuyasha found himself on the receiving end of Jakotsu's attentions who was quite determined to show Inuyasha the affection he always gives to his favourites... which involves death and possibly torture/rape.
%%* ''Manga/{{Zetsuai 1989}}'': Kouji for Izumi.
* Juvia of ''Manga/FairyTail'' has become this since Gray, who was originally just [[ObliviousToLove oblivious to her love]], bluntly turns her down in chapter 338, only for her to take it as him "toying with her affections".
* Chapter 56 of ''Manga/TokyoGhoul'' all but solidifies Eto as one for Kaneki. Basically, the more violent Kaneki is with her, the more she responds in kind and falls harder for him. Getting impaled results in her holding him close, licking his eyeball, and happily proclaiming her fondness for him as well as their similarity. Getting sliced in half and thrown off the top of a building results in an outright LoveConfession while LaughingMad.
** Mutsuki's growing SanitySlippage and psychotic tendencies become with the realization that they love Sasaki/Kaneki and are jealous of Touka. Kaneki refuses to be with Mutsuki and returns to the CCG with them. Not accepting refusal, Mutsuki promptly gets out their knives laced with rc suppressor drug and attacks Kaneki to render him powerless so they may take him back with them by force and tries to murder Touka the one who has Kaneki's love.
* Ferid of ''Manga/SeraphOfTheEnd'' appears to be one for Kururu. He waxes poetically about how beautiful she is and how much he loves her even after she cuts his arm off and expresses her contempt for him.
* ''Manga/KaijuGirlCaramelise'': Manatsu Tomosato is a {{Kaiju}} obsessed girl who has a crush on Harugon, a {{Notzilla}} who starts appearing around Tokyo. Unbeknownst to her, "he" is actually her [[SamusIsAGirl female]] classmate Kuroe Akaishi undergoing InvoluntaryShapeshifting at times of extreme emotion. Kuroe sporadically tries to urge Manatsu to give up trying to gain Harugon's affections without revealing her SecretIdentity, but Manatsu is such a CloudCuckoolander that it does no good.

* [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Harley Quinn and Joker]]. The one-shot comic ''[[TropeNamers Mad Love]]'', which was later adapted into an episode of the same name, that tells how Dr. Harleen Quinzel, then a psychiatrist at Arkham Asylum, first met ComicBook/TheJoker. The Joker saw her immediately as a tool to be used and manipulated her into becoming a henchman. However, at the climax, Joker ''[[MoralEventHorizon tosses Harley out a 3rd story window]]'' [[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou for getting the upper-hand on Batman]] ''without'' him, and she blames herself she "didn't get the joke".[[note]]Not that The Joker didn't decide her idea was good ''after'' she'd been taken out of the picture. What really angered him was that he didn't want to hear from other villains that ''she'' did what ''he'' couldn't - something Bats points out, of course.[[/note]] Cut to Arkham at the end of the episode with a heavily-bandaged Quinn vowing in her normal voice that her life of crime was over since she now saw the Joker for what he was: "a murderous, manipulative, irredeemable -" At which point she spots a rose sitting in her cell with a note of apology from Mr. J, causing her to smile and dreamily say "Angel!" in Harley's voice. Definitely chilling, and worth a watch. Even more so in the comic, Dr. Leeland asks Harley what it felt like to be treated so poorly after all she's done. Harley notices the rose and says "Like a kiss" which is all the more disturbing. (In fact, it's a ShoutOut to the 1962 The Crystals song, "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He_Hit_Me_%28It_Felt_Like_a_Kiss%29 He Hit Me (It Felt Like a Kiss)]]".) According to [[WordOfGod Bruce Timm]], The Joker ''really does'' need her, saying, "Everyone's seen The Joker laugh. Harley is the only one who's seen him ''cry''."

* In the newspaper comic strip ''ComicStrip/{{Curtis}}'', Curtis Wilkins considers the snobbish and aspiring actress Michelle to be "my girl," despite her going to great lengths to avoid him (and when she doesn't, it's only to brag to him about her accomplishments or have him do some menial task for her). Even after Michelle flat-out states to him that she's tried every way she can think of to show that she's not interested in him, Curtis believes that she's only being a good actress, causing her to sob in frustration.

* The ComicBook/CaptainAmerica villains ComicBook/RedSkull and Mother Night had a relationship like this. Mother Night was deeply in love with the Skull, even though he was always abusive to her. At one point he even started flirting with Viper (another Cap villain) just to piss her off.
* Exploited in "The Acid Test," in issue #11 of ''The Haunt of Fear'', when a woman threw acid in her slavishly devoted husband's face to discourage his attentions and he argued in court that it was done in the heat of the moment and he still loved her, only to reveal that it was all part of his plot for revenge and gloat about how, once he gave her the same treatment, she'd ''never leave him again''...
* In ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'', [[PsychoElectro Thunderbolt the Chinchilla]] serves [[EvilOverlord Dr. Eggman]] primarily out of sheer, unrequited adoration. It's to the point where she has a StalkerShrine in her bedroom with her face crudely plastered over photographs of Eggman and his robots.
* ''ComicBook/RobinSeries'': Darla Aquista thinks the only thing keeping Tim from hopping right into a serious relationship with her is her father's mob ties and that he'll start dating her anyway, even though he's made it clear he's happy with his current girlfriend, doesn't want to break up with Steph even after a period of her failing to pick up the phone (he knows Bruce is interfering), and really isn't interested in Darla's pushy self-centered self even a little bit. When she returns as an undead super-powered menace and learns Tim is grieving his girlfriend she decides this means ''they're dating'', just because Stephanie is dead, even though Tim clearly states he's not looking for a relationship and tries to avoid her.

* Mrs. Lovett in ''Film/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet'', who enables Sweeney's serial murders and disposes of his victims by baking them into pies. She continues to make romantic overtures to him despite his obvious disinterest, going so far as to [[spoiler:trick him into thinking his wife is dead. He throws her into her own oven to burn to death when he discovers her deception]].

* In ''Film/MyManGodfrey'', the female lead is head over heels in love with the butler Godfrey, who desperately tries to keep her away.
* The main conceit of ''Film/ItsLoveImAfter'' is to stop Marcia from being completely in love with Basil. He tries to push her away by being a horrible cad, but she only excuses his actions and thinks him even more irresistible.
* In film ''Film/{{Road House1948}}'', Jefty is completely delusional about his relationship with Lily. He thinks he can marry her, basically, without any consent or even plain interest on her part.
* Logan’s obsessive love for Jean in the ''Film/XMenFilmSeries''. At most, Jean thinks he’s attractive but is in love with and devoted to Scott – a fact she makes abundantly clear to Logan. Logan, on the other hand, pursues her relentlessly, including a ForcefulKiss in the second film. It appears he's come to accept she loved Scott not him following [[spoiler:her HeroicSacrifice]] at the end of ''Film/X2XMenUnited''. Only for ''Film/XMenTheLastStand'' to show that is not the case culminating in him [[spoiler:giving her a DyingDeclarationOfLove before [[MakesSenseInContext killing her.]]]] ''Film/TheWolverine'', shows he has turned into a hermit following [[spoiler:her death]] and has been having both nightmares about it and romantic dreams about her (sometimes combined) in the years since. This movie ends with [[spoiler:him telling her dream form that he’ll always love her and finally moving on.]] Then ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'' reveals that, nope, [[spoiler:his memories of Jean are still his most prominent ones 20 or so years after her death and roughly 10 years after him “moving on.”]] All this despite only knowing her for about five days total.

* ''Literature/IAmNotASerialKiller'' has Hulla, a somewhat [[ClingyJealousGirl deranged]] demon who falls for John after he cold-calls her with someone else's phone to tell her he's going to kill her. She hates her own, so his passion for demon slaying has her convinced they're soulmates. [[KillItWithFire Unfortunately for her]], [[SociopathicHero John]] does not share the sentiment.

* The UrbanLegend ''[[http://www.scaryforkids.com/perfect-girl/ "Perfect Girl"]]'' is about a boy who's so in love with a girl [[spoiler:he completely wrecks her life, [[DrivenToSuicide makes her attempt suicide]] which cripples her, and makes her so haggard and deformed just so that no one will want her except him.]]

* In ''Theatre/AsYouLikeIt'', this is the way that ALL the pairs of lovers behave, except for Touchstone & Audrey. It's the more innocent incarnation of the trope, where the issues arise because of Rosalind's gender-bending disguise. She gives herself the name "Ganymede" while disguised. Rosalind likes Orlando, Phoebe falls in love with Ganymede, Silvius likes Phoebe: HilarityEnsues. Although the word "abuse" gets used in the dialog, nothing the characters do would actually qualify under a modern-day definition of that word: apparently in ''Creator/WilliamShakespeare'''s day, the meaning was considerably weaker. There is a very clear distinction made between the actually abusive behavior of Orlando's brother Oliver and the way that Ganymede mocks his lovesick behavior. In her disguise, Rosalind (as Ganymede) pretends to do a kind of [[CureYourGays conversion therapy]] on Orlando: but it's really an elaborate pretext to flirt with him. There is also a scene where Rosalind (as Ganymede) has to fend off an overly affectionate Phoebe: but again, nobody is actually getting hurt here. All that ends up happening is a LOT of LesYay.

* ''Theatre/{{Assassins}}'': John Hinckley Jr. and Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme (see Real Life below) sing a duet ObsessionSong, "Unworthy of Your Love", detailing their devotion to Creator/JodieFoster and Charles Manson, respectively.

* The less-common male version occurs in ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphoniaDawnOfTheNewWorld'' with Alice and Decus, with the former utilizing the latter's feelings for all they're worth. Of course, that all changes when [[spoiler:Decus sacrifices himself to save Alice...]]
* It's hinted in ''[[VideoGame/PokemonDiamondAndPearl Pokemon Diamond/Pearl/Platinum]]'' that Mars (and possibly Jupiter too) of Team Galactic are on the team due to an infatuation with Cyrus. Since Cyrus considers all emotion burdensome, you can guess how much he returns these feelings.
* In Episode 3 of ''VideoGame/PhantasyStarUniverse'' it is greatly implied that the reason Helga is so intent on serving [[BigBad Howzer]], even after he deemed her as "expendable," is because she is in love with him.
* Tira from the ''VideoGame/SoulSeries'' is absolutely devoted to ''[[{{Squick}} Nightmare]]''. The scary thing is that this might be her ''least'' disturbing trait.
* Shrowdy von Keifer, villain of ''VideoGame/AVampyreStory'', makes a habit of kidnapping young women and then "disposing" of them when he gets bored. By the time the storyline proper rolls around, Mona is but the latest in an ever-growing line of women who have disappeared that way, and on top of that, she's either the woman Shrowdy's been looking for, or due to be axed at any minute, because she's lasted longer than any of her predecessors. Just for added creepy fun, it's very strongly implied that Shrowdy's victims are all chosen because they resemble his missing mother.

%% * Amy is like this towards Sonic in the ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'' franchise. It's made very clear that he doesn't have feelings for her.

* Moran for M in ''VisualNovel/ShikkokuNoSharnoth''. Interestingly enough, they're ''both'' portrayed sympathetically.
* Backstory of ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry'' in a nutshell, [[UnreliableNarrator at least as Beatrice tells it]] - [[BoyMeetsGirl man summons witch]], man falls in love with witch, witch doesn't love him, [[spoiler:man traps witch on island, witch dies-ish]], man can no longer see witch, man decides to [[PaterFamilicide kill entire family]] [[{{Necromantic}} in order to revive witch]] [[spoiler:(though that last part isn't true since he's been dead for over a year before the story begins)]] and spends most of his time [[SkywardScream screaming at the sky]]. Love? Depends on your definition, but definitely mad.
** Later in the series, we discover that the truth behind this is far worse: [[spoiler:Man meets woman, they fall in love, man keeps woman as his mistress in a hidden mansion, they have a daughter but the woman dies, daughter grows up to look so much like her mother that her father [[ParentalIncest forces himself on her]], daughter becomes pregnant and has a child but dies not long after, man still spends most of his time screaming at the sky until he finally meets that lost child. And dies.]] And then [[spoiler:that lost child becomes the secret master of the island [[LoveHurts and also becomes crazy because of love]]]].

* In ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'', [[PerkyGoth Tsukiko]] is [[ILoveTheDead in love with]] [[BigBad Xykon]], but he obviously doesn't return her feelings.

* ''Webcomic/SuicideForHire'' has had a few of these, first with a crazed stalker who, upon realising she had over 9000 competitors for her target's love, decided to drag his reputation through the mud to ensure she was his only choice; then, later on, there was a woman, who even after having her scalp ripped off and her baby forcibly aborted, a la Jigsaw's wife, still goes back to her husband. Justified in that the second woman was suffering from DomesticAbuse-induced StockholmSyndrome -- she ''knew'' she shouldn't go back to him, but he'd cut off ''every'' other contact in her life so that she couldn't see any means of successfully escaping him.

* Played with in ''WesternAnimation/TheBatman'', which initially seems to cast Joker as the [[AdaptationalNiceGuy doting boyfriend]] and Harley as the [[AdaptationalVillainy cold, dismissive girlfriend]]. She ends up pushing this too far and is harshly reminded who's ''really'' in charge ([[BadBoss and is then abandoned to die in a fire]]).

* ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' features Irwin, who has a huge crush on [[EmotionlessGirl Mandy]], no matter how many times she rejects him (even when she does this in utterly mean ways).

* Panini is madly in love with WesternAnimation/{{Chowder}} and her every effort has been to make him hers. Chowder wants ''nothing'' to do with Panini, to the point that his {{Catchphrase}} is to tell her, "I'm not your boyfriend!"

** Also Grelle for Sebastian. Leaving the fact that she's a {{Transgender}} woman (coming from WordOfGod, [[http://i888.photobucket.com/albums/ac90/smoking_kills/gint1.jpg and here's]] [[http://i888.photobucket.com/albums/ac90/smoking_kills/gint2.jpg the proof]]), she has a tendency to do anything to get Sebastian's attention. This makes her useful for the other main characters, especially Ciel, who promises her alone time with Sebastian in return for help. Sebastian does not seem too fond of this idea when he finds out, and as far as the anime shows, he manages to avoid her. Oh, and did we mention she's a death god and Sebastian's a Demon? Yeah, this a very strange relationship indeed.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pj6ntDEEfeE "The Red Means I Love You"]] by Music/MaddsBuckley is from the point of view of someone declaring their love for another and wanting to taste their blood, while the subject of their affections is indicated to be trying to get away from them and pleading for them to stop.

* ''Manga/BlackButler''

* In ''ComicBook/ArchieComicsSonicTheHedgehog'', [[PsychoElectro Thunderbolt the Chinchilla]] serves [[EvilOverlord Dr. Eggman]] primarily out of sheer, unrequited adoration. It's to the point where she has a StalkerShrine in her bedroom with her face crudely plastered over photographs of Eggman and his robots.

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* Harley Quinn and the Joker, again: All throughout ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' (where Harley originated, after all), she loved him unconditionally and madly (in the insane way as well as... *ahem* [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar deeply]]). She would quit him every so often and [[LesYay join up with Poison Ivy]] but would go work for him again in the end. See Comic Books for the deconstruction about Harley's origins, which gives her HiddenDepths. (Harley was originally just a Mook du Jour but became an AscendedExtra.)

* In ''Series/TheFlash1990'' TV series, Mark Hamill's Trickster character was the reason he was considered for his later Joker role; it was very similar to the point of having his own Harley Quinn, an unstable thrill-addicted toy designer who called herself Jinx:

'''Jinx:''' I love you... madly.\\
'''Trickster''': Oh, darling, it won't work. I'm no good for you. Besides, how can I miss you... when you ''won't go away?'' ''[pushes Jinx out of a moving vehicle]''

* ''Anime/CodeGeass''

* Haru towards Tsuna in ''Manga/KatekyoHitmanReborn''. Interestingly, she started off ''hating'' Tsuna because she thought he was mistreating [[DevilInPlainSight Reborn]] but quickly changed her mind after he saved her from drowning. With a little help from a Dying Will Bullet, of course, but that was enough to rewrite him as "awesome" in her book.

* ''Manga/AxisPowersHetalia''

* ''Manga/RurouniKenshin''

* ''Every single relationship'' in ''{{LightNovel/Durarara}}'' is like this, mostly due to the [[DysfunctionJunction incredibly dysfunctional cast]]. The healthiest one is probably the relationship between a back-alley surgeon and a female Dullahan (that is, a woman with no head), where the former outright says that he dissembled about the location of the latter's head because he never wanted her to leave him. And that's the point where their relationship ''improves.''

* Shuichi from ''{{Manga/Gravitation}}'' towards Yuki. He chases Yuki constantly, despite being rejected, verbally abused, and often being called a little brat. They eventually end up together.

* Many, many Literature/HarryPotter fanfictions portray Bellatrix Lestrange as feeling this way towards Voldemort, but ''Fanfic/HarryPotterAndTheMethodsOfRationality'' is one of the few works to make all the awful treatment she endures because of it explicit rather than mere subtext. It is ''not'' PlayedForLaughs, and in fact firmly establishes Voldemort as irredeemably evil in Harry's mind when he realises that he can be presented with such fanatical, unconditional devotion and not love her back, not even a little bit.
* BK Willis' "To Die For" series of Series/{{Doctor Who}} fics features an Adric who's the equivalent of ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'''s Kenny and a Nyssa who ''causes'' said deaths every time he tries to approach her in a romantic or even semi-friendly manner, played for black comedy.
* ''FanFic/TheRiseOfDarthVulcan'' has [[spoiler: Chrysalis]] fall in love with the titular VillainProtagonist due to a weird mix of AsskickingEqualsAuthority and IOweYouMyLife, convincing herself that the latter was the start of a RescueRomance. Vulcan, for his part, is [[{{Squick}} utterly grossed out]] by the situation, but decides to make use of her newfound loyalty to him so that he can have her power and experience on his side.
* Zirah and Caphriel of ''FanFic/TheSacredAndTheProfane'' are sleeping together and are working towards the same goal, and hold each other in genuine regard. Unfortunately, Zirah's also a terrifyingly insane psychopath who believes MurderIsTheBestSolution, and Caphriel, despite ''knowing'' how dangerous Zirah is, is devoted to him. [[DarkFic It doesn't end well.]]

* ''Series/NedsDeclassifiedSchoolSurvivalGuide'': Missy towards the titular Ned.

See also HopelessSuitor and RejectionAffection, for less crazy examples of unrequited love from which this trope borrows some elements from. Compare with the more serious LoveMartyr, a character in an unhealthy relationship whose love is meant to be selfless and noble (or at least sympathetic) instead of crazy, funny and/or stupid. May overlap with AbhorrentAdmirer. Compare MinionShipping and UnholyMatrimony. Contrast with VitriolicBestBuds, where this involves friends and may be mutual.

* Chapter 56 of ''Manga/TokyoGhoul'' all but solidifies Eto as one for Kaneki. Basically, the more violent Kaneki is with her, the more she responds in kind and falls harder for him. Getting impaled results in her holding him close, licking his eyeball and happily proclaiming her fondness for him as well as their similarity. Getting sliced in half and thrown off the top of a building results in an outright LoveConfession while LaughingMad.
** Mutsuki's growing SanitySlippage and psychotic tendencies become with the realization that they love Sasaki/Kaneki and are jealous of Touka. Kaneki refuses to be with Mutsuki and return to the CCG with them. Not accepting refusal, Mutsuki promptly gets out their knives laced with rc suppressor drug and attacks Kaneki to render him powerless so they may take him back with them by force and tries to murder Touka the one who has Kaneki's love.

* ''ComicBook/RobinSeries'': Darla Aquista thinks the only thing keeping Tim from hopping right into a serious relationship with her is her father's mob ties and that he'll start dating her anyway, even though he's made it clear he's happy with his current girlfriend, doesn't want to break up with Steph even after a period of her failing to pick up the phone (he knows Bruce is interfering), and really isn't interested in Darla's pushy self centered self even a little bit. When she returns as an undead super-powered menace and learns Tim is grieving his girlfriend she decides this means ''they're dating'', just because Stephanie is dead, even though Tim clearly states he's not looking for a relationship and tries to avoid her.

* ''Literature/WutheringHeights'': Edgar for Cathy Earnshaw. She walks all over him, ignores his wishes, throws temper tantrums and obviously prefers the company of Heathcliff, and yet he refuses to give her up.

* In ''VideoGame/LuigisMansion3'', Hellen Gravely is deeply infatuated with King Boo. So much so that she broke him out of his containment and lured Luigi and friends to the Last Resort to trap them into paintings, all to impress King Boo. King Boo doesn’t seem to notice or care about her affections, and is only interested in her effectiveness in helping him catch Luigi.

** Pepe [=LePew=]. The clawing, the biting, the beatings, the screaming and running away? He's confident that the object of his desire is just "playing hard to get."
** Penelope Pussycat, Pepe's reluctant love interest, has shown on three separate occasions to be ''way'' [[NoGuyWantsToBeChased more aggressive and passionate]] than Pepe. Incidentally, those shorts that show how much of a spitfire an interested Penelope can be suggest that Pepe's scent is literally the only thing driving her away; sad, then, that Pepe is intimidated by assertive women and rapidly loses interest as soon as one or both of them does something to take his smell out of the equation.

* Darkheart is obsessively in love with Discord in FanFic/TheReturnOfChaos. This probably owes rather a lot of inspiration to Harley and the Joker.

* The documentary ''[[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0790706/ Crazy Love]]'' documents the real-life (and pathetic) Mad Love between Linda Riss and Burt Pugach. After Riss ended her affair with him, Paguch hired men to throw lye in her face. He went to jail, but Riss dumped her fiance (who still wanted to be with her after the attack) and married Paguch after he got out. Certainly brings new meaning to the phrase "severe co-dependence".

* ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' features Irving, who has a huge crush on [[EmotionlessGirl Mandy]], no matter how many times she rejects him (even when she does this in utterly mean ways).

* A RunningGag in the ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTellius'' games is the character Aimee's absolute infatuation with [[TheHero Ike]]; she makes it so blatant that even [[ObliviousToLove he]] can tell that she loves him, sending him, a hardened mercenary with NervesOfSteel, actually running and seeking cover from her in one convo, and tries to blackmail him in another. Naturally, he isn't amused at all by this at all; she actually manages to scare him so that he takes every chance to avoid her, and causes him to override his normal [[InnocentlyInsensitive lack of filter]], waiting until she's out of earshot to call her delusional. Though unfortunately for him almost everything between him and her is PlayedForLaughs to the point even ''[[UndyingLoyalty Soren]]'' starts ''[[OutOfCharacterMoment teasing]]'' him in one of the aforementioned convos.

* In ''Theatre/AsYouLikeIt'', this is the way that ALL the pairs of lovers behave, except for Touchstone & Audrey. It's the more innocent incarnation of the trope, where the issues arise because of Rosalind's gender-bending disguise. She gives herself the name "Ganymede" while disguised. Rosalind likes Orlando, Phoebe falls in love with Ganymede, Silvius likes Phoebe: HilarityEnsues. Although the word "abuse" gets used in the dialog, nothing the characters do would actually qualify under a modern-day definition of that word: apparently in ''Creator/WilliamShakespeare'''s day, the meaning was considerably weaker. There is a very clear distinction made between the actually abusive behavior of Orlando's brother Oliver and the way that Ganymede mocks his lovesick behavior. In her disguise, Rosalind (as Ganymede) pretends to do a kind of [[CureYourGays conversion therapy]] on Orlando: but it's really an elaborate pretext to flirt with him. There is also a scene where Rosalind (as Ganymede) has to fend off an overly affectionate Phoebe: but again, nobody is actually getting hurt here. All that ends up happening is a LOT of [[LesYay]].

* In ''Theatre/AsYouLikeIt'', this is the way that ALL the pairs of lovers behave, except for Touchstone & Audrey. It's the more innocent incarnation of the trope, where the issues arise because of Rosalind's gender-bending disguise. She gives herself the name "Ganymede" while disguised. Rosalind likes Orlando, Phoebe falls in love with Ganymede, Silvius likes Phoebe: [[HilarityEnsues]]. Although the word "abuse" gets used in the dialog, nothing the characters do would actually qualify under a modern-day definition of that word: apparently in ''Creator/WilliamShakespeare'''s day, the meaning was considerably weaker. There is a very clear distinction made between the actually abusive behavior of Orlando's brother Oliver and the way that Ganymede mocks his lovesick behavior. In her disguise, Rosalind (as Ganymede) pretends to do a kind of [[CureYourGays conversion therapy]] on Orlando: but it's really an elaborate pretext to flirt with him. There is also a scene where Rosalind (as Ganymede) has to fend off an overly affectionate Phoebe: but again, nobody is actually getting hurt here. All that ends up happening is a LOT of [[LesYay]].

** Mao displays even more clear indication of this for C.C. He is so completely in love with her that [[LoveMakesYouCrazy he thinks it's alright]] to ''cut her up with a chainsaw'' in order to run away with her.[[note]]Note: she's immortal, she would have survived, but it would still have been none too pleasant...[[/note]]

* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': Nemu Kurotsuchi puts up with the abuse and humiliation of the sadistic Mayuri Kurotsuchi, her father, because of her love and admiration for him. It should, however, be noted that she isn't his actual daughter, since she is his OppositeSexClone that he specifically designed to be obedient and submissive.

* Haru towards Tsuna in ''Manga/KatekyoHitmanReborn''. Interestingly, she started off ''hating'' Tsuna because she thought he was mistreating [[DevilInPlainSight Reborn]], but quickly changed her mind after he saved her from drowning. With a little help from a Dying Will Bullet, of course, but that was enough to rewrite him as "awesome" in her book.

** Kamatari had it even worse, though I don't think either case with Shishio really applies – he was quite happy to have them around, he's just AllTakeAndNoGive. This is because he's a {{cr|eepyCrossdresser}}ossdresser and, though hardly gender-queer at all (he laughs and flashes Misao when she mistakes him for a woman), and is perfectly aware that he's not the strongest or the most beautiful retainer, and can't compete for Shishio's attention on either field. Even if Shishio liked guys, he'd have probably go for Soujiro. Ow, BrainBleach please.

* In ''Manga/BlackCat'', [[StalkerWithACrush Creed]] is crazy about Train. Train constantly tries to beat him off of him, and attempts numerous times to kill him. And Creed just can't seem to take a hint. Train must be resisting because someone "evil" is influencing him... [[MurderTheHypotenuse and that person must be killed]].
* ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'': Mummymon is head over heels in love with fellow villain [[MinionShipping Arukenimon]], even though she ''clearly'' isn't interested. Neither of them are particularly crazy, and she's willing to tolerate him unless he gets too touchy-feely.

** Also Grelle for Sebastian. Leaving the fact that she's a {{Transgender}} woman (coming from WordOfGod, [[http://i888.photobucket.com/albums/ac90/smoking_kills/gint1.jpg and here's]] [[http://i888.photobucket.com/albums/ac90/smoking_kills/gint2.jpg the proof]]), she has a tendency to do anything to get Sebastian's attention. This makes her useful for the other main characters, especially Ciel, who promises her alone time with Sebastian in return for help. Sebastian does not seem too fond of this idea when he finds out, and as far as the anime shows, he manages to avoid her. Oh and did we mention she's a death god and Sebastian's a Demon? Yeah, this a very strange relationship indeed.

* [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Harley Quinn and Joker]]. The one shot comic ''[[TropeNamers Mad Love]]'', which was later adapted into an episode of the same name, that tells how Dr. Harleen Quinzel, then a psychiatrist at Arkham Asylum, first met ComicBook/TheJoker. The Joker saw her immediately as a tool to be used, and manipulated her into becoming a henchmen. However, at the climax, Joker ''[[MoralEventHorizon tosses Harley out a 3rd story window]]'' [[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou for getting the upper-hand on Batman]] ''without'' him, and she blames herself she "didn't get the joke".[[note]]Not that The Joker didn't decide her idea was good ''after'' she'd been taken out of the picture. What really angered him was that he didn't want to hear from other villains that ''she'' did what ''he'' couldn't - something Bats points out, of course.[[/note]] Cut to Arkham at the end of the episode with a heavily-bandaged Quinn vowing in her normal voice that her life of crime was over since she now saw the Joker for what he was: "a murderous, manipulative, irredeemable -" At which point she spots a rose sitting in her cell with a note of apology from Mr. J, causing her to smile and dreamily say "Angel!" in Harley's voice. Definitely chilling, and worth a watch. Even more so in the comic, Dr. Leeland asks Harley what it felt like to be treated so poorly after all she's done. Harley notices the rose and says "Like a kiss" which is all the more disturbing. (In fact, it's a ShoutOut to the 1962 The Crystals song, "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He_Hit_Me_%28It_Felt_Like_a_Kiss%29 He Hit Me (It Felt Like a Kiss)]]".) According to [[WordOfGod Bruce Timm]], The Joker ''really does'' need her, saying, "Everyone's seen The Joker laugh. Harley is the only one who's seen him ''cry''."

** In ''ComicBook/DeathOfTheFamily'', [[spoiler: Harley Quinn has gone back to the Joker's side, and she even set herself up as a convincing decoy for Batman to go after at the Ace Chemical Plant. Played with, turns out she's not there solely out of loyalty to the Joker (and even states that he's not her Mr. J any more, and outright attacks him); she's there because Joker threatened to desecrate Deadshot's corpse. Also, the Joker's mad that she got together with Deadshot, and it's one of two reasons he's going after her at all.]]

* ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'': Terra's and Beast Boy's relationship is hilariously flanderized into this in ''ComicBook/TinyTitans''. Beast Boy is head-over-heels in love with Terra, however Terra loathes him and his affections. It goes way past being annoyed at his love-sick behavior, she's [[RunningGag constantly]] pelting him with rocks and berating him.

* In ''WebVideo/ResidentEvilAbridged'', [[TheMole Albert Wesker]] has a crush on Chris, but is able to keep it largely hidden. FreudianSlipperySlope moments notwithstanding. In TheStinger, however, Chris reads a draft of a romance novel [[HerCodenameWasMarySue starring himself]] and Chris that got steamy really quickly. Chris needed BrainBleach afterwards.

* Claude Frollo's lust for Esmeralda in ''Literature/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'', has driven him insane. He tries to have Quasimodo kidnap her, which doesn't work out. He then has her framed for murder and tells her that he can safe her from her execution, if she promises to love him.
* In ''Literature/ThePhantomOfTheOpera'' Erik, aka The Phantom, has this for the heroine Christine Daaè. He convices her that he is an angel sent by her deceased father, to get close to her. When the managers of the opera house won't let Christine sing, he crashes a chandelier into the audience during a performance. When Christine in the end plans to run away with her lover Raoul, he kidnaps her under a performance and threatends to blow up a quarter of Paris if she doesn't marry him.

* In ''Theatre/AsYouLikeIt''this is the way that ALL the pairs of lovers behave, except for Touchstone & Audrey. It's the more innocent incarnation of the trope, where the issues arise because of Rosalind's gender-bending disguise. She gives herself the name "Ganymede" while disguised. Rosalind likes Orlando, Phoebe falls in love with Ganymede, Silvius likes Phoebe: [[HilarityEnsues]]. Although the word "abuse" gets used in the dialog, nothing the characters do would actually qualify under a modern-day definition of that word: apparently in ''Creator/WilliamShakespeare'''s day, the meaning was considerably weaker. There is a very clear distinction made between the actually abusive behavior of Orlando's brother Oliver, and the way that Ganymede mocks his lovesick behavior. In her disguise, Rosalind (as Ganymede) pretends to do a kind of [[CureYourGays conversion therapy]] on Orlando: but it's really an elaborate pretext to flirt with him. There is also a scene where Rosalind (as Ganymede) has to fend off an overly affectionate Phoebe: but again, nobody is actually getting hurt here. All that ends up happening is a LOT of [[LesYay]].

* Shrowdy von Keifer, villain of ''VideoGame/AVampyreStory'', makes a habit of kidnapping young women and then "disposing" of them when he gets bored. By the time the storyline proper rolls around, Mona is but the latest in an ever growing line of women who have disappeared that way, and on top of that, she's either the woman Shrowdy's been looking for, or due to be axed at any minute, because she's lasted longer than any of her predecessors. Just for added creepy fun, it's very strongly implied that Shrowdy's victims are all chosen because they resemble his missing mother.

* ''Franchise/{{Noob}}'' seems to have a downplayed version of this between [[spoiler:Nazetrîme and Master Zen]]. The target's feeling towards the situation differs between the two media in which the crush in mentioned. The webseries has his reaction to it shown while he's giving a "I'm superior to you guys" speech to the protagonists, so he shows a "nice, uh?" reaction to the woman mentioning her crush on him during her own introduction. However, the comic version has the crush mentioned when the two are alone with their own guildmates, and his reaction is closer to "Got it, you like me, now stop walking so close to me."

* Harley Quinn and the Joker, again: All throughout ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' (where Harley originated, after all), she loved him unconditionally and madly (in the insane way as well as... *ahem* [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar deeply]]). She would quit him every so often and [[LesYay join up with Poison Ivy]], but would go work for him again in the end. See Comic Books for the deconstruction about Harley's origins, which gives her HiddenDepths. (Harley was originally just a Mook du Jour but became an AscendedExtra.)
** ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' had a similar case with the supervillainess Inque and a random sap named Aaron Herbst who supervised her while in prison. Aaron ends up requesting to be given shapeshifting powers like Inque, to which Inque responds by giving him only half the treatment, causing him to mutate into a liquedated, powerless blob, and in the end being on the receiving end of this trope.

** One may think Elmyra qualifies, though in a zoophiliac version of the trope.